Sunday, July 1, 2007

Instruct and Warn

The large number of “Catholic” politicians who vote for the culture of death can not claim to lack due instructions as to where the Church stands on the question of abortion.

As to the warning clause, I would pray that our bishops get together and speak with a united front, and enforce the teaching received from the Holy Office.

Simple enough: Catholic politicians who support abortion are no longer Catholic; they excommunicate themselves.

Our Salesian Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez, of Honduras, stated it well:“We are talking about a person who has broken off a branch of the tree of life of the Church, a dry branch that has lost its vital sap and is doing something that is a lie. One who is against life and is clearly opposed to the message of Our Lord Jesus, as is an abortion supporter, cannot be in communion with Holy Mother the Church.”

2 comments:

Anonymous
said...

At some point the time for instruction and warning becomes unduly prolonged, and this seems now to be the situation in the US. You are right. The american bishops need to take a united position: "If you support abortion by your vote, you are no longer a Catholic." It really is that simple. The problem is one of finding the necessary intestinal fortitude to take this simple action.

St. John Bosco, pray for us!

About Me

Fr. Malloy served as a Salesian of Don Bosco. He was the Provincial of the Western and then Eastern Province of the Salesians.
He was president of Don Bosco Technical Institute in San Gabriel, CA. Former pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish in Surrey, B.C. and then Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco. From its inception until his death he served as the Chaplain of the Walk for Life West Coast. His final earthly posting was at Salesian High School in Richmond, CA, just a stone's throw from where he was born and raised. At age 91, Fr. John died on Wednesday of Holy Week in the Year of our Lord 2013.
Gibbons J. Cooney served as Fr. Malloy's secretary from 2001-2007 at Saints Peter and Paul, San Francisco, and as Father's assistant blogger.